Physical/Mental Wellness
GLP-1s Don't Dull Motivation. In Depression, They May Sharpen It. The Evidence Is Better Than You Have Been Told, and Narrower.
The "Ozempic makes you numb" narrative is not supported by the trial evidence. In people with major depressive disorder and a BMI ≥25, semaglutide appears to reduce effort-discounting — meaning...
The Factory Ruling: New Mexico Orders Meta to Redesign Its Platforms for Children
A state judge just ordered the most operationally detailed product redesign in social media history. It applies only in New Mexico. It will be appealed. But the template is now...
A Second Blood Test for Colorectal Cancer Arrives — SimpleScreen Joins Shield, and the Screening Calculus Shifts
The second FDA-approved blood test for colorectal cancer widens the market, sharpens the debate over what "screening" actually means
Avoiding Three Things in Middle Age Linked to 13 More Years Without Dementia
A major longitudinal study has put a number on what preventive neurology has been saying for years: midlife choices compound into decades of cognitive difference.
The NHS Brings Mental Health Care to the High Street
The £343 million plan to put mental health crisis centres in banks and libraries is the most significant redesign of England's mental health infrastructure in a generation. The ambition is...
MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Reduces PTSD in 80% of Soldiers, Israeli Study Finds
This is the most clinically significant MDMA-PTSD result since the FDA's 2024 rejection of Lykos Therapeutics' application. It arrives in a country facing an unprecedented surge in trauma cases —...
A Womb Becomes an Operating Theatre: The Surgery That Could Change the Standard of Care for Gastroschisis
The third successful in-utero repair of complex gastroschisis — using Botox to relax abdominal muscles and keyhole surgery through a partially exposed uterus — is not yet proven at scale,...
What Jet Lag Does to Your Body — and How to Cope
Jet lag is not just tiredness. It is your circadian clock, your gut, and your cognition being dragged across time zones at 900 km/h — and the evidence on what...
A tan is not a wellness practice
Social media has repackaged ultraviolet radiation injury as self-care. The biology did not agree to the rebrand — and the long-latency consequences are accumulating whether the TikTok trend fades or...
Florida Is Testing Whether “Therapy First” Becomes “Medication Last” for Young People
A therapy-first policy is only as humane as the speed and availability of the therapy it promises. Without that capacity, Florida’s new guidance risks becoming medication-last by default.
Early Bird Dinner: What Finishing Dinner by 5–7pm Actually Does
Finishing dinner around 5–7pm can be a practical way to create a longer overnight break from food and reduce late-night eating, but the evidence does not make that clock time...
The Four-Day Week Stopped Being an Experiment
The four-day work week has crossed from pilot to policy. The question is no longer whether it works — it's who gets it first.
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